Persoonia. | CIV. PROTEACE. 395 
neath, mostly 2 to 4 in. long, flat or the margins slightly recurved.. 
Flowers solitary in the axils but the floral leaves sometimes reduced to 
small bracts or quite abortive at the base of the young shoots. dicels. 
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yond the cells. Ovary stipitate, glabrous; style elongated ; ovules 2. 
Vietoria. Moist shady woods on the upper Tyers, Tarwin, Latrobe, Tangil, and 
P? rivers, and in the beech woods of the Lower regions of the Baw-Baw Mountains, 
30. P. salicina, Pers, Sy». i. 118. A tall shrub, the young 
branches minutely pubescent, the foliage glabrous. Leaves oblong- 
lanceolate, more or less oblique or falcate, obtuse or mucronate-acute, 
contracted into a short petiole, mostly 4 to 8 in. long, flat, not very 
thick, more or less distinctly 3-nerved and obliquely veined. Flowers. 
at the base of the shoots axillary or below the leaves, the floral leaves 
mostly abortive or much reduced. Pedicels 2 to 4 lines long, glabrous 
 ? pubescent. Perianth glabrous or slightly pubescent, 5 to 6 lines 
long, the segments without terminal points. Anther-connective not 
produced beyond the cells. Ovary stipitate, glabrous ; style elongated ; 
ovules 2.—R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 163, Prod. 373; Meissn. in. 
DC. Prod, xiv. 343. 
, M. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 60, and many others; Hast- 
mgs river, Beckler ; Port Macquarrie, Tozer. 
UI? Muelleri. Quite glabrous. Leaves broader, less falcate or strai ht, thicker, 
with nerve-like margins, and mostly 2 to 4 lines long.  Pedicels shorter. erianth not 
en, the specimens all in fruit only.—Twofold Bay and Genoa river, #. 
36. P. prostrata, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 163, Prod. 373. $ 
trailing prostrate or low and diffuse shrub, extending sometimes to 
MD labrous or the young shoots slightly pubescent. Leave 
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Anther-connective not produced beyond the cells. Ovary stipitate, 
S; style elongated; ovules 2.—Meissn. in C. Prod. xiv. E. i 
noides, A, Cùnn. ; R. Br. Prot. Nov. 15; Meissn. in DC, Prod. 
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a S. Wales. Mss. feed p Cho, ningham; New England near Armidale 
ead of Macleay river, C. Stuart ; Mount Mitchell, Beckler. idus js 
s Specimens are several of them very unsatisfactory, but all described as pros Ta e. 
D foliage is nearly that of some died in specimens of P. cornifolia, but the ovary 
det sides 8; the leaves also resemble those of P. revoluta, but are flatter and green on 
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